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Title

Letter from Lord Elgin to Mr. Cumming-Bruce. 

Online
 (5)

Arrangement structure

Date(s)

21 January 1851

Place

Toronto

Place of creation

Ontario

Extent

pages 1854-1858
Inventory no.: 5102

Language of material

English

Scope and content

Finds reports of Crown claims [on the estate] distressing; comments on settling local questions within the colony rather than in Britain; remarks on enclosed press commentary; leaves reporting their children's party and her role as a fairy in a charade to Elma; notes family routines and Elma's opinion on her pony. With integral postal cover. Enclosure: clipping from the Montreal Gazette dated 6 January 1851.

Conditions of access

Textual records
90: Open
Volume
21 File number 6
90: Open

Finding aid no.

Additional information

A transcript of this letter, done by Theodore Walrond, can be found in: volume 21, pages 1852-1853.

Source

Private

MIKAN no.

4052661